Silk Road Project

...AD 800. On Sunday afternoons, visitors are treated to musicians from around the world who are part of a global music initiative called the Silk Road Project, founded by Yo-Yo Ma. The Silk Road and its travelers were directly responsible...

In this article: American Museum of Natural History, Yo-Yo Ma, China, Asia, and Baghdad

...was seven. Q. Have you performed in India before, apart from the Sangat music festival? Ihave performed in New Delhi and in Agra with the Silk Road Ensemble , a project of the cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The idea behind the Ensemble is to discover...

In this article: Mumbai, India, Agra, New Delhi, Nobel Prize, Mango, East Carolina University, and Yo-Yo Ma

...music. Wu, by contrast, worked for 12 years in Boston, played at the White House in 1999, and became a founding member of the Silk Road Ensemble led by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and has become the leading Western exponent of her instrument.

In this article: Wu Man, China, Terry Riley, San Diego, Carnegie Hall, UC San Diego, Los Angeles Times, Isaac Stern, and Yo-Yo Ma

...their way along these often treacherous pathways. The cellist Yo-Yo Ma has championed the music of this fabled route in his Silk Road Ensemble. But Chicago's Silk Road Theatre Project has made its mark by producing works for the stage...

In this article: The King and I, Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble, Miss Saigon, Chicago, India, and China

...player, taiko drummer and former KODO member; Khongorzul Ganbaatar, master of the Mongolian long song and a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project; noted Japanese koto player Miki Maruta;horsehead fiddle virtuoso Tserendorj Tseyen; throat...

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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs with members of the Silk Road Ensemble in Boston in 2005 to help promote his new CD "Silk Road Journeys Beyond the Horizon." Ma was born in Paris to Chinese parents and came to the United States as a child prodigy.

In this article: Antonin Dvorak, Yo-Yo Ma, New York City, Paris, American music, Symphony No. 8, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Harvard

..."Twilight Music" at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring. Nov. 14: Brooklyn Rider, a string quartet made up of members of the Silk Road Ensemble, performs with the spike-fiddle player Kayhan Kalhor at the Library of Congress.

In this article: Library of Congress, Baltimore, So Percussion, Washington, Steve Reich, Silk Road Ensemble, Christopher O'Riley, and Radiohead

...this fall include a concert Nov. 14 by a new quartet called Brooklyn Rider. These four musicians -- all members of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project -- have collaborated with Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor for an evening of world music. The...

In this article: University of Maryland, Washington, The Elixir of Love, Peabody Institute, Juilliard, Ticketmaster, Gaetano Donizetti, Franz Schubert, and Yo-Yo Ma

...brother-in-law are all wedded to science. The one exception is Raman, a graduate of Juilliard School of Music and a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, although the exactitude needed of a cello and cellist might also qualify him to be a...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble heads for the Proms One of the most brilliant cellists on the planet has set up the multicultural Silk Road project, which is coming to the BBC Proms in...

In this article: Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern, Serge Koussevitsky, Harvard, China, Royal Albert Hall, New York, and American music